Oh BAA MA! Worst person in the World.

by WannaBeRSC the Contrarian SOB Posted 2011/02/05 06:18:45

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First, Clinton sells our secrets to the Chinese, now Oblahblah just gives them away to the Russians. You Dems have a lot to answer for.
Wanna

By Matthew Moore, Gordon Rayner and Christopher Hope

9:25PM GMT 04 Feb 2011

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Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be
given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack
Obama next week.

Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of
refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip
also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown
often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by
the WikiLeaks
website.

Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US
embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent
from the London Embassy, which are published
online today. The documents also show that:

• America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their
private lives and professional relationships.

• Intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US became strained after the
controversy over Binyam Mohamed, the former
Guantánamo Bay detainee who sued the Government over his
alleged torture.

• David Miliband disowned the Duchess of York
by saying she could not “be controlled” after she
made an undercover TV documentary.

• Tens of millions of pounds of overseas aid was stolen and spent on plasma
televisions and luxury goods by corrupt regimes.

A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how
information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s
support for the “New START” deal.

Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked
cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the
UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.

Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with
detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the
US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers
to Britain.

Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while
the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way
for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will
provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British
arsenal.”

Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to
find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having
the unique identifiers might help them.”

While the US and Russia have long permitted inspections of each other’s
nuclear weapons, Britain has sought to maintain some secrecy to compensate
for the relatively small size of its arsenal.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, last year disclosed that “up to 160”
warheads are operational at any one time, but did not confirm the number of
missiles.